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Webster 1913 Edition
Dawdle
Daw′dle
(da̤′d’l)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dawdled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dawdling
.] [Cf.
Daddle
.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Come some evening and
dawdle
over a dish of tea with me. Johnson.
We . . .
dawdle
up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.
Daw′dle
,Verb.
T.
To waste by trifling;
as, to
. dawdle
away a whole morningDaw′dle
,Noun.
A dawdler.
Colman & Carrick.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dawdle
DAW'DLE
,Verb.
I.
DAW'DLE
R,Noun.
DAWK, v.t. To cut or mark with an incision.
DAWN, v.i.